It is situated on the B4368, 7 miles (11 km) northeast of the town of Craven Arms, in the Corvedale, at around 140 metres (460 ft) above sea level.

[3] Also within the wide, rural parish are the hamlets of Broadstone, Little London and Upper Millichope.

[4] The name Munslow derives from a place at a mound or tumulus ("-low") but the meaning of the first element ("Muns") is unclear.

Munslow is a historic village with over 29 houses being listed grade II or above,[6] although it has never had any major historical significance, the 'hundred house' of Munslow hundred acted as the centre for local administration and judicial functions for many centuries.

[11] Also born there were judge Edward Littleton (made a peer as Baron Lyttelton of Munslow) in 1589,[12] and Victorian architect Samuel Pountney Smith in 1812.

[15] Today, Munslow is a sparsely spread village with no community recreation area.

[17] Millichope Park is a Greek Revival country house which stands in 220 acres (90 Hectares) of ornamental parkland.

The Crown Country Inn is situated at the south end of the village and was formally the area's 'hundred house'.

[25] The village does not have a shop (the Post Office which closed in the early 1990s was situated in the Old Bakery), but there is one in the Aston Munslow Garage, one mile away south towards Craven Arms.